figure out this listener thingy...
Troy
Barney Boisvert wrote:
> The point of putting the variable in as a property is so that you
> never have
> to reference the application scope from your code. The entire
> framework is
> in the application scope, so you should never need to reference the scope
> explicity.
>
> I believe the Listeners get passed a reference to the app manager in their
> init() method, which you can use to get the property manager without going
> to the application scope.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 3:04 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Mach-II - Where to set the datasource?
>
>
> Thanks for the feed back.
>
> Just to test this out, I did what Barney suggested and put the property
> in the mach-ii.xml file and then put the following line the frameworks
> index.cfm file to see what I would get:
>
> <cfoutput>#Application.insidewood.apploader.getappmanager().getpropertymanag
> er().getproperty("DataSourceName")#</cfoutput>
>
> It appears that Application.insidewood is a Structure. The insidewood
> is the application directory name. The Framework must have gotten
> structure name from somewhere else.
>
> Additionally,
> When I used <cfdump> on "Application.insidewood", I got back a nice
> pretty definition of the apploader object which helped me drill down.
> <cfdump "#Application.insidewood.apploader#">
> <cfdump var = "#Application.insidewood.apploader.getappmanager()#">
>
> Nice!!!
>
> Thanks for the help guys.
> Troy
>
>
> Barney Boisvert wrote:
>
> > Best bet is to set it in the property section of mach-ii.xml, and then
> > read
> > it in via the PropertyManager cfc. I haven't looked at 1.0.6, but I
> > believe
> > it now exposes the property manager to the Listeners (though probably
> not
> > directly), which makes this feasible. You could just set it in
> > Application.cfm to an application scope variable, but that then
> > requires you
> > to go outside the framework to get it, which isn't good, so I'd
> > recommend a
> > property.
> >
> > Then, once it's there, all the classes that need to use it (except the
> > listeners) should have it passed to their init() method by the
> > listeners so
> > they aren't coupled to the framework's PropertyManager.
> >
> > barneyb
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Troy Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 1:55 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Mach-II - Where to set the datasource?
> >
> >
> > First:
> > Would this be the right forum for Mach-II or is there another List
> that
> > I should subscribe to for this?
> >
> > Second:
> > If I use the Mach-II framework, where am I suppost to set an
> Application
> > Variable for a DataSourceName?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Troy
> >
> > --
> > Troy Simpson
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> >
> >
> >
>
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